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Greying_Pilgrim

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

KC I guess our small holding, in the manner of a cadbury's bournville type garden is about the same size to feed a family of 4.

Ooooooo - there's posh..... do you have oompa loompa's instead of Garden Gnomes then?

Oh, hang on. Wrong chocolate factory :doh: Soreee :rotfl:

Oh, Pipster - in answer to Mfmaybe's question - would cyclamen work? Saw some in a wine crate outside of a restaurant today and was transported back to seeing them in a NT garden in Spring, last year. Was thinking from a shady/woody aspect - but know nowt about flowers, so thought I'd just ask.

Sorry I'm so behind in keeping up with your diary. But hopefully I can do better from here on in

Greying

Pippilongstocking

Cyclamen is a grand idea too - great stuff Greying. And as to catching up - nae stress I can barely keep up with myself. PS No umpalupas......:)

KC I know what a palava eh - fingers crossed.

RT I can now add washing machine almost fixer to my cv.

Well I heard tonight I didn't get the position I went for on Monday.

Ach well as my grannie always says, whats for you won't go passed you.

Writing class was grand though....................

Pippilongstocking

Morning lands
A breezy start in these here parts.

Work (couple hours paid) and then hopefully I can snag the rest of the day for chores and bits.

Contemplating ideas to stop the evil ice cave (conservatory) being so cold. Still no heating on wondering about some kind of non-radiator method of stopping that room sucking the life's heat out of the rest of the house.

Both stoves are too far from it/in rooms adjacent with limited air flow. This room does have two radiators but as its an oil system I'm loathe to have them on if necessary. So I'd like something to take the chill off that room, if not entirely heat it.

Thoughts on a post card please. Have contemplated calor gas heater but not sure I can a/ afford one and b/ like the idea of condensation they can sometimes give. The one I like is here. But tis too expensive....


So any cunning ideas to keep that room warm?

I guess I could pull most of the blinds down that'd be a start.......

Ideas gratefully welcome.

Karmacat

Morning Pippi! For the evil ice cave, you could consider an electric radiator - those oil-filled ones, they're brilliant for taking the chill of a room - they take a long time, though, they're the kind of thing that needs to be left on for a while, I think. My sister uses them in France - the house there is stone.

Pippilongstocking

Oh KC we have one of those but I thought they ate electric.

Will investigate where it is and get the energy owl out too.

Morning!

starnac

Morning Pippi nothing really to add but didn't want to read and run. so :hello:

I also wondered what BG stood for yesterday. I'm glad you cleared that up without me having to own up to having half a brain

Hope everyone is well this morning? Funny weather here. All overcast and murky but very warm!

ZTD

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

£7.75 for a new belt which is *polishes halo* very easy to fit.

Well done for that - not many people would have even tried it.

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

OH 'raging' and wanting to just send it back to man.
He did say it was working, we asked him several times.

Ponders what to do. I'm happy enough to order a belt as it was a cheap machine but unless the belt fell off miraculously during the 4 miles we transported it I think perhaps the chap was a bit confused or a chancer.

Unless its fallen off when he moved it - that could be possible

Washing machine motors range from 1/2 horsepower up to about 4hp. A belt loose enough to fall off under its own weight isn't going to transmit that kind of torque. It will have snapped and fallen off.

The guy is a chancer. But don't give it back, he probably wouldn't have sold it if he had known it was only a belt.

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Contemplating ideas to stop the evil ice cave (conservatory) being so cold. Still no heating on wondering about some kind of non-radiator method of stopping that room sucking the life's heat out of the rest of the house.

Both stoves are too far from it/in rooms adjacent with limited air flow. This room does have two radiators but as its an oil system I'm loathe to have them on if necessary. So I'd like something to take the chill off that room, if not entirely heat it.

Right, why *exactly* do you want to heat the conservatory?

1. Because you're using it and it's cold?
2. Because insulation between it and the rest of the house is so poor that it is making a room next to it that you're using, cold?

Pippilongstocking

Starnac - BG yup Botanic Garden - me and my silly abbreviations.

p***ing down here, although its been dry and windy not warm that's for sure.

Goodluck with the running.

Z - hello and I hope you're well.

1 and 2 are affirmative.
The room is the only 'corridor room' between the kitchen and the rest of the house and I generally use it for a good few hours each day, mostly in the mornings, its where most of my books are. It is progressively negatively effecting the heat in the rest of the house. It cases a huge cold front in the kitchen and negatively impacts an already cold living room.

I could of course move rooms in the morning to work.

Or

Lock myself in the kitchen, with a bucket.

Or

Run at speed round the corner between evil ice cave and rest of house.

Although I'm bound to knock myself out sooner or later.

Its not life threatening, just a heat drain.

Kettle firmly back on as is the stove in the kitchen as I'm blue about the gills.

Pippilongstocking

Todays greatness is that I've done some report and refilled the stick buckets, put the stove on and collected six eggs. Fed and watered hens.

Made some barely soup will have that for tea with some HM flatbreads - inspired by greying.

(no takeaway )

Sold £1 worth to a neighbour and donated half a bag of apples.

Sold £2 eggs to chum in town will deliver over weekend.

Texted a youngling about an airer for uni

Had some rather nice beans on toast.

Still no cuppa what's up with me.

Ah waiting for kettle to boil, on stove (free wood).

Surely its lunchtime soon.

starnac

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Run at speed round the corner between evil ice cave and rest of house.

Although I'm bound to knock myself out sooner or later.

Or trip over the threshold and do a "Superman" into the lounge a la DS